RE: [uk-netmarketing] Blind Readers

[Edward Cowell]

Silas


It just happens that we have had to research just this sort of thing for a

client of ours recently. An excellent resource is the WAI web accessibility

initiative. You can get more info from http://www.w3.org/WAI/ links to lots

of readers and testing sites etc.


Someone earlier mentioned the Disability Act ,is there any other pending

legislation that may make access a requirement for sites? We had heard the

AOL got sued in the states for not ALT tagging images, is this true or not?


And to qoute Tim Berners-Lee "The power of the Web is in its universality.

Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."


Teddie


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-----Original Message-----

From: Silas Denyer [

silas [dot] denyerturns [dot] net (mailto:silas [dot] denyerturns [dot] net)

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Sent: 26 January 2001 16:32

To: uk-netmarketing from chinwag

Subject: [uk-netmarketing] Blind Readers



Related to the discussion of "the rules", for those who don't know I

believe

that the RNIB in Great Portland Street now has a gallery full of computers

set up with different types of readers / decoders / helpers for the

partially sighted to allow designers / developers to see how their

creations

are translated.


This technology and the issues around it crops up all over the place, see

http://www.rnib.org.uk/whatsnew/pressrel/dec2000/carsurf.htm [summary:

internet "readers" for the blind are being trial-fitted into cars to allow

motorists to access the internet whilst driving without a screen] - if that

sort of thing takes off I can see "accessibility" suddenly becoming a

number

one priority for a lot of people:-)


Silas Denyer

Director, Turns Ltd

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silas [dot] denyerturns [dot] net

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